FLY
The Wahlflower
The Wahlflower recipe
| Hook | Ahrex HR412 Low Water Single, Size 6 (Hook Range Size 2 - 8) |
|---|---|
| Thread | Under Body – White 8/0, Head: Black 3/0 |
| Tag | Small Mylar Tinsel - Silver |
| Butt | Uni-Floss - Orange |
| Tail | Golden Pheasant Crest |
| Rib | Large Oval French Tinsel - Silver |
| Body | Veevus Floss – Chartreuse |
| Throat | Orange Hackle Fibers |
| Wing | Squirrel Tail Dyed Yellow |
About this fly
The Wahlflower is a well-known steelhead fly pattern that was created by Ralph Wahl of Bellingham, Washington in 1965. It is a popular choice among fly fishers and is known to be effective in catching steelhead. Ralph Wahl, may have been the first man to cast a fly for Skagit River winter-run steelhead. "There may have been others, but they weren't where I was fishing," Ralph says. Ralph was fishing for summer-run steelhead on the North Fork Stillaguamish whenever he could find time to break away from working at the family store (Wahl's Department Store) in Bellingham. Ralph had been an obsessed fisherman all of his life. When the run of Deer Creek natives would begin to stack up in clear N.F. Stillaguamish pools below the town of Oso, so would Ralph and a host of other dedicated steelhead anglers. Many of them would become life-long friends and, unbeknownst to them at the time, steelhead fishing legends.
What the The Wahlflower imitates
- Fancy / attractor (imitates nothing specific)
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